Tag: Francis Spufford

• The Ballad Of X

  Francis Spufford, Unapologetic: “It would be nice if people were to understand that science is a special exercise in perceiving the world without metaphor, and that, powerful though it is, it doesn’t function as a guide to those very large aspects of experience that can’t be perceived except through metaphor.” Wendell Berry, Life Is A Miracle: “If…

  Apr 14, 2014

  # books, creativity, Francis Spufford, life, N.D. Wilson, quotes, science, synchronicity, Wendell Berry

• 13 In ’13: A Pop Culture Omnilist

  Standard operating procedure for making year-end culture lists says to rank your ten favorite films/albums/books, but I’ve recently soured against this convention. Choosing a pre-determined number of “the best” among many great works, as all award shows do, is great entertainment but entirely arbitrary. So this time around, I decided to institute my own arbitrary…

  Jan 14, 2014

  # 12 Years A Slave, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Before Midnight, best of, books, Chris Hadfield, film, Francis Spufford, Gravity, Haim, Her, House of Cards, Like Someone in Love, lists, Lucius, movies, music, Neil Gaiman, review, Rod Dreher, Short Term 12, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, This Is Martin Bonner